1 Rightly so, Examiners are insistent that the pilot know from memory what to do in the event of a fire—every time you fly an aircraft that you are not familiar with, it is critical to examine and memorize fire procedures in advance (there won’t be time to look this up in the Pilot Operating Handbook in the event of an actual fire). Not complying with the anti-fire sequence in the order prescribed by the manufacturer could be deadly. In a fire, microseconds count as any delay could cause, for example, the melting of the engine mounts—an aircraft cannot fly without an engine physically attached to the front of the airframe! The sequence is quite simple—“fire in flight . . left to right.”

2 The effects of various C of G positions always pop up in the pre-flight test oral examination.